To understand this question we need to consider what
happens in Scene Four as a whole and think about how it relates to this tedious job that
Amanda is shown to work at during the play at various stages. Let us remember that it is
in this scene that Amanda tries to convince Tom to find a suitable friend who could
marry Laura so that she can be saved from spinsterdom and can be provided for. Key to
this talk that Amanda has with her son is the following
speech:
I know
your ambitions do not lie in the warehouse, that like everybody in the whole
world--you've had to--make sacrifices, but--Tom--Tom--life's not easy, it calls
for--Spartan
endurance!
Amanda herself
shows her own "Spartan endurance" by working hard at a job that requires her to demean
herself by calling a series of women to get them to subscribe to a magazine and talking
to them about their kidney conditions. This of course is not what she would have wished
or expected from her life, but the scene ends this way to show her resolution, but also
their economic situation.
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